The great CitiBlocs wooden building sets just got even better, with two new varieties - Hot Colors and Cool Colors. Made with precision cut, high quality wood, these blocks come colored with a non-toxic water-based stain - blue, turquoise, dark green, and lime green for the Cool Colors, and red, yellow, orange, and pink for the Hot Colors. Natural unstained planks are included in both sets. With these new colors, build f...Read more

A very snuggly companion, this ultra-soft plush Pooh Bear was the delight of all the children and adults to whom we introduced him. Light-weight and easy to cuddle for even very young ones, this classic Pooh makes a wonderful addition to every toy collection. Warning: your child and this Classic Plush Pooh will be inseparable....Read more

Travel through time as you traverse the About Time board, venturing guesses as to the year in which historical events occurred! Although only one team advances on the board with each roll of the die, all players are in on the action from start to finish. Every team ventures a guess, and the team whose answer is closest to the correct year collects a token. And collecting the most tokens is the key to winning! There are ma...Read more

Created by two mothers, both of whom are educators, Air Play fits easily over most airplane tray tables and provides ample means to engage and entertain a young child, reducing travel time stress for everyone. Loaded with fun activities and designed in bright, eye-catching colors, Air Play immediately drew the attention of any child placed in the same room with it during testing. The abundance of activities, (quiet) sou...Read more

This is an exceptionally fun, quick-moving 2 player game that takes no time at all to learn, in which players use simple logic and reasoning to win. Both players secretly stack their animal tiles in their own tower in any order they choose. By asking yes or no questions, such as 'is the giraffe above the pig?' players can zero in on their opponent's order. Whoever correctly guesses the order of their opponent's tiles firs...Read more

Appletters is a word-lovers delight, with three exciting word games in one 110 tile apple pouch. Two of them, Make a Snake and Apple Turnover, require players to create words by adding tiles from their hand to those on the table, with the first or last letter of the word being laid down attaching to the first or last letter of the ongoing word snake. The twist of Apple Turnover is that it allows you to replace a word at ...Read more

Imaginations will run wild with this 62-piece set of brightly-colored wooden shapes. The 'I' and 'L' shaped pieces make it easy for fingers and minds to quickly create patterns and structures of surprising beauty and playfulness. The child-safe wooden pieces can be laid out flat or built up into vertical structures, and the set comes with several easy-to-copy examples, ranging from simple to elaborate. Whether you're buil...Read more

Love has just arrived on your doorstep! This wonderful doll (available as a boy or girl) has the luxuriously high quality feel of a bygone era, with beautiful blue eyes that close when reclining and soft, pretty clothing designed so little ones can easily dress and undress them. Their delicate yet solid, weighted feel (the midsection is a squeezably soft bean bag) make them seem real, especially when cuddling or rocking. ...Read more

Who knew that having a stack of banana covered pancakes for a midsection would make for one of the most squeezably soft plush puppies on the planet? With big, imploring eyes, long floppy ears, a perky tail, and a banana peel on top of his head, this sweet, silly puppy is ready to be your constant companion and canine cuddle buddy. One of several different Pancake Puppy plush toys available from The CuddleCakes Group....Read more

Feeling silly, kooky, creative, adventurous? Let your imagination run wild with Beach Buddies Shell Crafts. This great, fun kit makes for excellent group activities but is equally enjoyable to do on your own. The more than 25 included sea shells, beautiful to start with, provide a gorgeous, fascinating foundation on which to build your artistic vision. Paints, glues, wiggly eyes, felt accents, and more provide all you nee...Read more

This cleverly designed 108-card deck comes with instructions for six excellent games. Each card contains an image of either a bead or pendant that comes in various shapes, colors and patterns. Each of the six quick, easy-to-learn games involves using your bead and/or pendant cards to create strings, by using pairs (two cards that share 2 of the 3 bead qualities), or perfect pairs (two identical cards). Our testers had a...Read more

HABA is masterful at providing food for your child's imagination, and their new Biofino Fish is no exception. Beautifully designed and executed, soft, colorful and creatively detailed, this fun fabric fish is sure to wind up in the play kitchens of little chefs everywhere. The belly of the fish opens to reveal a pink dotted interior and a removable plastic fish bone (the tip of which is just visible through the fish's puc...Read more

The Bobo Glove, with its bright colors, patterns, varied textures, and attachments (teether, rattle, reflector, pull toy, and more) turns your hand into baby's favorite toy. There's something exceptionally freeing and rewarding about slipping this mini-adventureland onto your hand and interacting with baby. Whether wiggling a red-and-white polka dotted index finger, curling your hand into a flower-eyed puppet, or simply w...Read more

Get your child off to a great start writing uppercase and lowercase letters with this fantastic set. Kids progress by first tracing, then writing freehand, typically working on one letter per card. Every card shows the proper starting point for each letter stroke, with arrows indicating the direction of the stroke. Captions and illustrations at the top and right-hand sides of the cards give examples of words and objects t...Read more